Give a Damn

You remember the song called "Give a Damn"
 Some group sang last summer?
 About people livin' with rats and things
 The paper couldn't cover?
 Well, it wasn't very popular
 Nobody wanted to hear
 And that's a shame 'cause a pretty tune
 Was just what we needed that year
 The first thing nobody wanted to hear
 was "damn" - that was on the label
 I mean it's okay if you just read it there
 But you didn't bring it up at the table
 So the radio didn't play the song
 Except on the FM stations
 Until some looter worked his way
 Down to the United Nations
 Then word got around that there's this song
 All about the riots and stuff
 So, they played "Give A Damn" on the noon report
 Just once, but that was enough
 Some cameraman with groovy footage
 Of glowing embers and charred remains
 Put the pictures with the song on the six o'clock news
 Following the baseball game
 Then everybody said it was a real fine song
 "Why didn't we hear it before?
 Let's all blame the radio stations
 For bringing on the domestic war
 Oh sure, we'd seen some articles
 We knew some people needed help
 But social workers take care of that
 I mean, why give a damn yourself?"
 Well, the reason that you didn't
 And the reason that you won't
 Is you think you got a lot to lose
 And the other fella don't
 Oh you give a damn, well so does he
 'You think the rest of us are just fakin'?
 I mean what do you need that you got to give
 Less than what you're takin'?
 Where could you go?
 Who could you see?
 What could you do the best?
 The book is in your left hand
 Your right hand knows the address
 Address your questions, address your money
 Address your telephone number
 But above all else, please address yourself
 To give a damn this summer